The Venting Thread

[Langue_doc]

ALH, sorry to hear about the slow healing. Hope the wound doctor knows what to suggest/prescribe.

Yay for ALH spouse. Happy anniversary!

[clean]

AFter 40 years, I hope that you have trained your spouse to take care of your needs when you are impaired! 

Good luck at wound care, hopefully it is resolved quickly!

[AmLitHist]

Thanks for the good wishes, everyone.  I'm a lousy patient, or at least an impatient patient: this all started when I injured my foot on December 7, so I'm really ready to move on.

Clean, it's taken awhile, but ALHS has gotten better over the years, and he's really come through this time.  We had a couple of rough patches ~20 years ago (over relatively minor things, looking back). I'm glad I wasn't stupid enough to storm out and leave back then.

[Thursday's_Child]

I am so ticked off at this ac unit. We replaced the capacitor, contactor, thermostat (previous one was 20 years old, so...) and it STILL won't turn on...

We're baking down here...

EPW, is there an odd light switch in your house?  One that doesn't seem to do anything?  Mine has one, way higher than normal on a wall, that prevents the A/C from turning on.  I think it's so you can set the climate controls to "auto" in the winter and only use the heater.

I didn't see one, but I can check again. The furnace has a switch on it and the blower definitely works. I think the issue is that something isn't communicating to the outside ac unit. The parts work individually, but not as a team.

Hmmmm - look for a loose piece of light-duty wire - like doorbell wire.  Years ago one of my dogs squeezed through the space between the house & the unit & detached the wire that communicated to the unit that it should turn on.

I checked the voltage of the line all the way to the outside unit and it's fine. I'm stumped. I've got an AC guy coming out today.

I hope it gets fixed!

[evil_physics_witchcraft]

I am so ticked off at this ac unit. We replaced the capacitor, contactor, thermostat (previous one was 20 years old, so...) and it STILL won't turn on...

We're baking down here...

EPW, is there an odd light switch in your house?  One that doesn't seem to do anything?  Mine has one, way higher than normal on a wall, that prevents the A/C from turning on.  I think it's so you can set the climate controls to "auto" in the winter and only use the heater.

I didn't see one, but I can check again. The furnace has a switch on it and the blower definitely works. I think the issue is that something isn't communicating to the outside ac unit. The parts work individually, but not as a team.

Hmmmm - look for a loose piece of light-duty wire - like doorbell wire.  Years ago one of my dogs squeezed through the space between the house & the unit & detached the wire that communicated to the unit that it should turn on.

I checked the voltage of the line all the way to the outside unit and it's fine. I'm stumped. I've got an AC guy coming out today.

I hope it gets fixed!

Posted about it in the 'What Do You Fix?' thread. I need a new circuit board. :(

[evil_physics_witchcraft]

I just had an ocular migraine (no pain, just big zig zag blurry crap for 25 minutes) and I haven't had one in years. I guess I'm stressed. :(

[paultuttle]

I just had an ocular migraine (no pain, just big zig zag blurry crap for 25 minutes) and I haven't had one in years. I guess I'm stressed. :(

Feel better soon!

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My own vent: I'm sick at heart and can't express the depth of my disgust and horror at the asininity of six fundam(n)entalist Christians pushing their religious views onto (at a minimum) 51% of the voting population. This is a gigantic "screw you" to women's equality, bodily autonomy, and political representation. (And of course to that of non-women who love women and want women to have equality, bodily autonomy, and political representation.)

Hell, if this is "originalism," let's do the whole damn thing and stop all food and water safety regulations, ignore everything we've learned about the germ theory of disease (and the vaccines that came from that), return to crapping in outhouses, return to heating with wood fires, return to letting horses crap everywhere, bathe about once a week, pull teeth without anesthetics, return to when all travel was extraordinarily long and dangerous, return to life in the South with no air conditioning, and go back to the times when only white (European) landowning men could vote. Oh, and we'd only have 13 states on the Eastern Seaboard, plus some "territories" east of the Mississippi. Yee-hah, back to 1789!

--Paul, who thinks it's curious that the only recently discovered constitutional right based on the 14th amendment that Clarence Thomas DOESN'T want to repeal is the one based on Loving vs. Virginia

[apl68]

I just had an ocular migraine (no pain, just big zig zag blurry crap for 25 minutes) and I haven't had one in years. I guess I'm stressed. :(

Sorry to hear you've had that problem again. 

I had one a couple of years ago without knowing what it was.  It scared me into thinking that I might be getting a detached retina or something (I'm considered at elevated risk for that).  It alarmed me enough that I managed to get a quick work-in appointment with the eye doctor later that day.  Finding out that it was only an ocular migraine was a great relief in that case.

[mythbuster]

This is very much a 1st world problem vent. I have a very lightweight bathrobe that I wear at home and take when travelling. It's a cotton waffle weave spa style robe. At a conference about a week ago, the maid took my robe! She likely mistook it for one of theirs. If she looked closely, she would have seen how old and worn it was! Trust me, no one else would want this item.

So I need a new bathrobe- do you know who hard it is to find a lightweight bathrobe? I live in a semitropical clime so all that thick terrycloth is of no use here! I ordered one on line. It was heavier than I like but ok. Then I washed it and it shank to the point of the sleeves being too tight! 

So I'm venting about the overzealous maid and the lack of warm weather robe options. I'm headed to the mall later today- wish me luck in finding an appropriate replacement.

[ciao_yall]

--Paul, who thinks it's curious that the only recently discovered constitutional right based on the 14th amendment that Clarence Thomas DOESN'T want to repeal is the one based on Loving vs. Virginia

Agreed.

The argument made was that Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Ammendment did not apply to interracial marriage because all races were inconvenienced by this... therefore, it was, in fact, Equal Protection.

Of a sort.

[AmLitHist]

--Paul, who thinks it's curious that the only recently discovered constitutional right based on the 14th amendment that Clarence Thomas DOESN'T want to repeal is the one based on Loving vs. Virginia

Agreed.

The argument made was that Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Ammendment did not apply to interracial marriage because all races were inconvenienced by this... therefore, it was, in fact, Equal Protection.

Of a sort.

^^  +1,000 to all and related above  ^^

I'm also still waiting on someone to give me a sound logical explanation of how/why it's OK for the government to tell me and my daughters and other women what we can and cannot do with our bodies, and why in fact they SHOULD tell us this--yet why those same proponents of ending Roe v. Wade proclaimed the end of Western civilization, human rights, free will, and all that is holy, when various government officials/entities dared to insist that we wear masks to at least try to avoid spreading an often-deadly/debilitating contagious disease for the past couple of years. I don't really ever expect to get that explanation.

I'm worried about what this clusterf$&k court is going to try to pull next in regard to gay marriage/LGBTQ protections.

For now, I'm encouraging those who craft to crochet, sew, knit, or otherwise craft soft warm blankets to take to your local Planned Parenthood or other clinic for those who do still avail themselves of abortion services. (IMHE, those places are always freezing cold, and the stress of the entire situation can make it feel even worse. A warm snuggly to use and take home is the least of the kindnesses I can offer, along with some notes of affirmation and encouragement.)  I'll be taking some to mine, and once I get back on my feet, I also plan to donate some time serving as an escort at the clinic on a regular basis.

[evil_physics_witchcraft]

I just had an ocular migraine (no pain, just big zig zag blurry crap for 25 minutes) and I haven't had one in years. I guess I'm stressed. :(

Sorry to hear you've had that problem again. 

I had one a couple of years ago without knowing what it was.  It scared me into thinking that I might be getting a detached retina or something (I'm considered at elevated risk for that).  It alarmed me enough that I managed to get a quick work-in appointment with the eye doctor later that day.  Finding out that it was only an ocular migraine was a great relief in that case.

Thanks apl68. Sorry you had to go through it too. It wigged me out pretty good. At first I didn't know what was happening, then I remembered, looked it up and got my internet confirmation.

[evil_physics_witchcraft]

--Paul, who thinks it's curious that the only recently discovered constitutional right based on the 14th amendment that Clarence Thomas DOESN'T want to repeal is the one based on Loving vs. Virginia

Agreed.

The argument made was that Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Ammendment did not apply to interracial marriage because all races were inconvenienced by this... therefore, it was, in fact, Equal Protection.

Of a sort.

^^  +1,000 to all and related above  ^^

I'm also still waiting on someone to give me a sound logical explanation of how/why it's OK for the government to tell me and my daughters and other women what we can and cannot do with our bodies, and why in fact they SHOULD tell us this--yet why those same proponents of ending Roe v. Wade proclaimed the end of Western civilization, human rights, free will, and all that is holy, when various government officials/entities dared to insist that we wear masks to at least try to avoid spreading an often-deadly/debilitating contagious disease for the past couple of years. I don't really ever expect to get that explanation.

I'm worried about what this clusterf$&k court is going to try to pull next in regard to gay marriage/LGBTQ protections.

For now, I'm encouraging those who craft to crochet, sew, knit, or otherwise craft soft warm blankets to take to your local Planned Parenthood or other clinic for those who do still avail themselves of abortion services. (IMHE, those places are always freezing cold, and the stress of the entire situation can make it feel even worse. A warm snuggly to use and take home is the least of the kindnesses I can offer, along with some notes of affirmation and encouragement.)  I'll be taking some to mine, and once I get back on my feet, I also plan to donate some time serving as an escort at the clinic on a regular basis.

Yep. The thing I don't understand is how all of the responsibility for a pregnancy is placed on women. I think men had something to do with it too...

[evil_physics_witchcraft]

Double post.

The AC guy is late...

[mamselle]

Sheesh!!

For your second home, you guys need an igloo....

Very sorry this just keeps dragging on and on....

M.